The Education of Alice Hamilton: From Fort Wayne to Harvard

by Matthew C. Ringenberg, William C. Ringenberg, Joseph D. Brain

Overview

As the founder of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the first woman faculty member of Harvard University, Alice Hamilton will be remembered for her contributions to public health and her remarkable career. Born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Hamilton attended several medical schools contributing to her lifelong dedication to learning. Focusing on the investigation of the health and safety conditions – or rather lack thereof – in the nation's factories and mines during the second decade of the twentieth century, her discoveries led to factory and mine level-initiated reforms, and to city, state, and federal reform legislation. It also led to a greater recognition in the nation's universities for formal academic programs in industrial and public health. In 1919 the Harvard officials considered Hamilton the best qualified person in the country to lead their effort in this area. The Education of Alice Hamilton is an inspiring story of a woman dedicated to erudition and helping others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253044013
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	03/12/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	166
File size:	46 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Matthew C. Ringenberg is a Chair and Associate Professor of Social Work at Valparaiso University.

William C. Ringenberg is partially retired as a professor emeritus of History at Taylor University.

Joseph Brain is the Cecil and Phillip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology in the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Table of Contents

List of Tables

Preface

Brief Educational Biography

1. Prologue: Alice Hamilton Arrives at Harvard

2. Early Informal Education

3. Learning in Transition to Adulthood

4. Medical Schools

5. Learning Self Confidence at Hull House

6. Investigating the Dangerous Trades

7. The Scientist as Social Scientist

8. Epilogue: The Senior as a Public Intellectual

9. A Photographic Memoir

Bibliography: Wilma R. Slaight Bibliography of the Writings of Alice Hamilton

Editorial Reviews

"This volume is valuable just for its windows—through a series of 40 photographs, a comprehensive table of honors and awards Hamilton received, and an extensive bibliography of other source material—into the formative years of our field and the life of a pathbreaking woman in academia. But the authors have brought Hamilton into the present moment through their careful synthesis of how she came to occupational epidemiology and remained absolutely faithful to science and to evidence-based advocacy at its best."—Adam M. Finkel, ScD, CIH, AJPH Book & Media

From the Publisher

This volume is valuable just for its windows—through a series of 40 photographs, a comprehensive table of honors and awards Hamilton received, and an extensive bibliography of other source material—into the formative years of our field and the life of a pathbreaking woman in academia. But the authors have brought Hamilton into the present moment through their careful synthesis of how she came to occupational epidemiology and remained absolutely faithful to science and to evidence-based advocacy at its best.

AJPH Book & Media - Adam M. Finkel